IMPD: Facebook hookup leads to Westside carjacking

An Indianapolis man’s desire to meet a woman he knew only through Facebook led to an encounter this morning with two masked men who robbed him at gunpoint and drove away in his car.

The victim, a 25-year-old man who lives on the Far Eastside, drove his white 2000 Chevy Monte Carlo about midnight to a Westside home in the 3900 block of Corwyn Road. That’s south of 30th Street and east of Georgetown Road.

He told police that when he pulled into what he believed to be the woman’s driveway, she approached his car from another residence and told him he had pulled into the wrong address. She directed him a few houses down, and he drove to the second location, according to an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department report.

The man then got out of his car, at which point two men wearing masks emerged from some bushes. At least one of them held a pistol. One of the masked men ordered him to lie on the ground. He complied.

One suspect said, “Gimme your money,” the victim told police. He replied that his money was in his car. The man then demanded his keys and threatened to shoot him if he did not cooperate.

The two suspects then began going through the victim’s pockets, police said, and “then just yanked his pants off.”

The suspect holding a gun told the victim to count to 130. The suspects then left, one in his Monte Carlo and the other in another vehicle.

Besides his car, the victim told police the suspects also took his cell phone and about $400 in cash.